Applying a systems thinking approach to the construction industry /

"Using the broken UK housing sector as a case study, Mike Siebert applies a Systems Thinking approach to tackling some of the Wicked Problems faced by an industry that urgently needs to boost its productivity levels, build more sustainably, more affordably, and generally improve its working pra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siebert, Mike (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. What are we trying to do; What's stopping us?; How could we approach it differently
  • Defining the Sectors
  • Drivers for Change: The government perspective on what the industry needs to do
  • Barriers to Change: The industry perspective on what the government needs to understand
  • The Methodology for Change
  • Part II. What 'approaching it differently' could achieve
  • Political Intervention: pushing the right buttons at the right time
  • Industry Intervention: changing the message to fit the audience
  • The Missing Tools: the tools we need, how to build them, and how to promote them
  • Applying these tools to solve the Housing Industry's crisis.